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Entering the Era of Good Feelings, Monroe advances America's authority overseas while the Supreme Court continues to expand the power of the court and federal authority.
Vocabulary - Era of Good Feelings, Missouri Compromise of 1820, McCulloch v Maryland, Gibbons v Ogden, Monroe Doctrine
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As political strife ends the Era of Good Feelings, Andrew Jackson advances the executive power of the president through his actions towards Indians, tariffs, and banks while the issue of state's rights resurfaces.
Vocabulary - Election of 1824, spoils system/patronage, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears, Worcester v. Georgia,
Panic of 1837 |
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Under the vision of Manifest Destiny, the United States pushes westward, engaging in wars with Mexico and crossing trails into the Oregon Territory, sparking border disputes with Britain.
Vocabulary - manifest destiny, Battle of the Alamo (1836), "54'40' of Fight" , Mexican American War (1846-48), Wilmont Proviso (1846), California Gold Rush, Gadsden Purchase (1853)
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Dubbed the American Renaissance, the United States begins to develop its own brand of artistic expression as the nation addresses the number of issues that have developed in the young republic.
Vocabulary - Hudson School of Artists, transcendentalism, abolition, Senaca Falls Covention, Second Great Awakening,
utopian communities, temperance movement |